Once the Fugitive Slave Act took effect, the Northern states were no longer safe for those who managed to escape from being enslaved.
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More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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[Harriet Tubman] lived such a full, complex, and irrefutably-dynamic life that all the craft in the world would be insufficient in honoring her legacy.
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When you understand the purpose [of life], then you can deal and journey through the obstacles, the rejections, the stops and starts, highs-and-lows with a different lens because you know that you’re moving in what you’re supposed to do.
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One of the first memories I have was watching Whoopi Goldberg perform her one-woman show on Broadway on HBO.
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Learning about all these elements and aspects of her was mind-blowing and educational for me as a woman because I have to sometimes remind people that have known me for years.
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The second season of Underground does explore Canada’s role in providing a welcoming place for the thousands who were in danger of being captured and returned to their owners, and those who escaped by way of rerouting beyond the American borders.
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It’s no mistake that Harriet Tubman is revisiting us, in different forms, right now, as we travel through a very contentious time in the world.
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The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system.
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I think we’re in a time that calls for that level of courage, that level of resolve.
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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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It was also incredibly serendipitous that I would later learn I shared a birthday with Whoop [Goldberg ].
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The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you.
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That is a huge part of my excitement, the fact that this generation will get such a beautifully-detailed introduction to a hero and icon that has largely lived in a few pages of our history books and in one-dimensional photographs.
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Even in past relationships, that I’m still a woman, I still have vulnerabilities even though my aesthetic feels strong, powerful and full of all of the wisdom in the world, I’m still growing and becoming.
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I felt validated and valued , and here was this woman [Whoopi Goldberg ] inside my television screen who gave me a voice.
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I walked away from the craft because I wanted to know that this is what I was supposed to do with my life.
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